Relationship Builders 360 conducts the official Rebuilding Seminars live in Madison, Wisconsin, and offers virtual sessions for clients throughout the state and country. We provide classes, counseling and coaching to dramatically accelerate your recovery, provide lifelong tools that will enable to turn the page and start a new chapter on your life that is deeply satisfying.
Margaret Lambert, MSW, LCSW is a psychotherapist, group facilitator, teacher and author. She specializes in all levels of couple relationships and offers a three level approach to divorce and separation recovery, healing and future relationship development.
Margaret is the cofounder, with her colleague, Dee Vetter, Ph.D. of Sonas Behavioral Health, LLC on the west side of Madison, Wisconsin. In her private practice Margaret worked with individuals and couples addressing a variety of relationship concerns, including marital and couples coaching, divorce recovery, women's self-esteem and empowerment and healthy approaches to dating.
Her work with groups, individuals and couples has a strong foundation in Family Systems Theory; with a Cognitive-Behavioral and Psychoeducational approach. Margaret personally trained with Dr. Bruce Fisher, founder of the divorce and separation Rebuilding model, and has been successfully facilitating groups for over 26 years.
Through the therapeutic experience, I have the privilege of being invited into individual’s lives as they share the struggles they have been experiencing. People suffer in many different ways, and respond differently to those events in their lives based on the personal, social or financial resources they have at their disposal. For some, this can lead to feeling depressed or anxious. They may feel hopeless or even helpless in their ability to turn things around in their lives. To be allowed to be part of their process of change and rebuilding is a gift; and one that I do not take lightly. I really value seeing individuals make changes through their own efforts.
Margaret's practice is relationship focused and strength based. She offers a wrap-around approach relationship building which helps individuals improve their ability to build and maintain healthier relationships with a partner, a friend or even a family member. Whether you are preparing for marriage, struggling in a relationship, thinking of a divorce or separation or recovering from a relationship, her 360 program offers information, guidance, emotional support and community opportunities for transitions.
You don't have to do this alone. You aren't the only one going through this. With the right combination of community, coaching, and content you can dramatically rebuild your life. You can be happy and looking forward to the next chapter. How will you Rebuild?
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When you think about health care, what comes to mind? For some, it’s a pursuit of wellness connecting mind, body, and spirit. For others, health care is like a car’s transmission – you don’t really notice or appreciate it until it’s making a noise, or completely broken.
People in the middle of a crisis or transition in a significant relationship can feel especially stressed, which we all know affects our health. Some may find themselves both ill and alone for the first time.
My name is Beth, and I am writing a series of articles designed to help you navigate today’s complex health care system. I am a nurse by training, but several years ago I became interested in the study of “quality” care – especially for patients who are in the hospital. None of what I write will be an endorsement for a particular hospital or care system, nor is any of the content meant to recommend any course of treatment. Simply, I will be giving you information so that you can make educated choices about your own health care. I invite your comments and conversation.
Whether you have visited your local emergency department, or provider/physician clinic, or have been a patient in the hospital recently, you may have received a “patient satisfaction survey” in the mail. The survey often contains questions about the timeliness of your visit, how the food was, or whether it was quiet at night. Most surveys ask about whether your provider or nurse communicated information about your medications or care plan in ways you could understand.
Many insurers, including the federal government (aka Medicare) require certain types of providers or organizations to collect and publicly report the results of these surveys. If you have a specific comment, whether it’s a kudos or complaint, those are forwarded straight to the provider for an opportunity for a direct response to you.
Soon, there will be an additional set of questions that will be included in hospital patient satisfaction surveys. The three new questions are part of a bundle called “Care Transition Measures”. Simply, hospitals are required to prepare you for discharge – whether you are going back home or on to another care setting (like a nursing home). And for good reason! Medicare is now financially penalizing certain hospitals for re-admissions of certain patients within 30 days. Unnecessary re-admissions are costly and dangerous for patients and the health care system.
Let’s have a look at the questions:
Question 1: During this hospital stay, staff took my preferences and those of my family or caregiver into account in deciding what my healthcare needs would be when I left.
Question 2: When I left the hospital, I had a good understanding of the things I was responsible for in managing my health.
Question 3: When I left the hospital, I clearly understood the purpose for taking each of my medications.
Hospitals will be scored on the number of questions that received a “Agree” or “Strongly Agree” in each of the questions multiplied by the number of patients that were eligible to receive a survey. Hospitals will be focusing more and more on equipping patients and their families or other caregivers in how to manage their health issues outside of the hospital. They will work hard to teach and communicate with you, and ask you several times whether you understand what they are trying to show you.
You and your caregivers have the responsibility to speak up, ask questions, and otherwise seek out information, until you are sure that you understand. Are going through a significant change in a relationship, to the extent that you are managing your health all by yourself? You should ask around to find out who might help serve as a healthcare “buddy” for you. Someone who at least knows the basics about where your medication list is, or who your regular provider is. Someone you can call on when you are ill, or who might be okay with listing their name as a contact person should you become hospitalized.
Transitioning out of the hospital can be tricky, whether you are going home or to another care setting. It’s important to have another set of ears, and perhaps another voice if you are not able to speak for yourself. Hospitals are paying attention to how you will be able to cope after you leave. You should do all you can, too.
You’ve already come a long way. Let’s reach the next level together.
6402 Odana Rd,
Madison, WI 53719
Phone:
608-204-6076